The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-04-07
OUR FIFTH YEAR-A FORECAST.

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management -Four years ago, we
found it with an edition of less than
four hundred copies, and to-day our
circulation average will reach close to
four Thousand copies per week. By
dint of hard work and close applica-
ton to business we have brought
about this metamorphosis, until now
we verify believe THE SENTINEL to
be a power for great good toward the
upbuilding and continued growth of
our community, and yet the greater
portion our advertising patronage
comes from a distance. This fact
shall not, however, deter us one whit
from continuing to labor earnestly in
behalf of Winston Salem, and her best
interests, commercial and otherwise.
In this connection the writer wishes
to thank his brethren of the press
throughout the State tor their very
fatterlng and gratifying comments in
connection with the overtures recently
made him to assume the editorial
management of morning paper in
another State. He is glad to say also
That after viewing the situation IN er-
tense, his love for North Carolina has
triumphed, and he has, therefore, de-
cided to remain at his present post of
duty.
Our belief in the future of North
Carolina is unbounded and our con-
fidence in the ultimate growth and
prosperity of this section and this par
ticular community is mistaken. Ma
ture has given the Twin-City locat-
ion which the wisdom of the old
Moravian fathers was quick to detect,
and even then, "they builded wiser
than they knew" and there is a day
in the years to come, when this beaut-
iful valley will be covered by great
and prosperous metropolis, but it rests
upon our own people to produce this
result. Nature and Chance can not
do it all, our own energy, wisdom and
enterprise must be brought to bear.
There is crisis staring us in the
face to-day. Before us are two
courses to pursue. We must follow
one or the other, either to allow our
energies remain dormant, or. to bestir
ourselves, go to work in earnest and
make the most of our opportunities.
We must increase and diversity our
industries and do it with prompt
ness and decision. We have no time
to lose. The real boom for which we
have all been waiting has begun and
if we do not now adopt some active
and vigorous measures to reap the
benefits of it, we will lose the golden
opportunity, which may not come
again soon.
There is, we repeat, no time to loose
in deciding "what we are going to do
about it. We have it in our power
now to take such steps as will speedily
give our city the biggest kind of a
boom and to inaugurate such a sys-
tenn of industries as will not be de-
pendent upon any local conditions.
As manufacturing city, Winston
Salem possesses many and grea. adj
vantages. The time is the most aus
picious We have ever known and we
earnestly trust that it will not be suf
fered to pass by unused.
When THE SENTINEL shall have
reached another anniversary, we hope
to see the population of our city in
creased to many thousand souls; new
and more diversified industries inaug-
urated, more railroads running to and
from the city, and the existance of a
more wide spread spirit of rivalry in
the exertion of such efforts as are cal
culated to infuse our people with new
life, to build up our waste places and
to send our manufacture speeding to
the four quarters of the earth.
IF THE SENTINEL can be "a factor
in this good work, it stands ready,
with sleeves rolled up, and with shout
der to the wheel, to push with persis-
tence and vigor.
The Manufacturers Association of